Microsoft’s Activision acquisition in peril after UK regulator warns of harm to gamers

TL;DR

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) already expressed concerns about Microsoft’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard last year, but it now says the deal could harm UK gamers. “The evidence available to the CMA currently indicates that Microsoft would find it commercially beneficial to make Activision’s games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service (or only available on other services under materially worse conditions),” says the UK regulator. These will all be considered ahead of the CMA issuing its final report, which is due by April 26th

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